Dr. Ratnesh Kumar

Brief Bio

Brief Bio
Dr. Ratnesh Kumar is Professor in the Department of Applied Mechanics at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, where he has been since 2012. Currently he Dean (Students Welfare), earlier he has also served as Associate Dean (Hostel Affairs) and Associate Dean (Students Activity). Prior to VNIT he was associated with various Academia and Industry; he worked with Earthquake Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee as Fellow B, Assistant Professor at School of Engineering, Gautam Buddha University and Head of Structural Design Division in Privitech Consulting Engineers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi. He received Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Bangalore University in the year 2000, M. Tech and Ph. D from Earthquake Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. His research interests span both in structural engineering and earthquake engineering. Much of his work has been on improving the understanding, design, and performance of reinforced concrete structures. He is also working in the area of seismic evaluation and retrofitting and seismic risk assessment. He is also heading various laboratories such as: Advanced Computing, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Fire Engineering laboratory at VNIT. He has guided 3 Ph. D. and 28 M. Tech thesis and presently two Ph.D. students are working under his guidance. He has given more than twenty-five invited talks and tutorials at various academic and industrial forum, coordinated fifteen short-term courses and workshops on various aspects of structural and earthquake engineering and published more than seventy research papers in reputed journals and conferences. He is associated with various research projects of more than fifteen million rupees and handled consultancy project of more than twenty million rupees. He received Sir Arthur Cotton Memorial Prize (IEI) in 2011. He is member of Indian Water Works Association, Institution of Engineers (India), Bamboo Society of India and Indian Society of Earthquake Technology. In the later he also served as executive committee member during 2011-12. He is reviewer of many journals such as American Concrete Institute, Engineering Structures, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Journal of Structural Fire Engineering and many more.

Dr. Ratnesh Kumar is Professor in the Department of Applied Mechanics at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, where he has been since 2012. Currently he Dean (Students Welfare), earlier he has also served as Associate Dean (Hostel Affairs) and Associate Dean (Students Activity). Prior to VNIT he was associated with various Academia and Industry; he worked with Earthquake Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee as Fellow B, Assistant Professor at School of Engineering, Gautam Buddha University and Head of Structural Design Division in Privitech Consulting Engineers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi. He received Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Bangalore University in the year 2000, M. Tech and Ph. D from Earthquake Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. His research interests span both in structural engineering and earthquake engineering. Much of his work has been on improving the understanding, design, and performance of reinforced concrete structures. He is also working in the area of seismic evaluation and retrofitting and seismic risk assessment. He is also heading various laboratories such as: Advanced Computing, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Fire Engineering laboratory at VNIT. He has guided 3 Ph. D. and 28 M. Tech thesis and presently two Ph.D. students are working under his guidance. He has given more than twenty-five invited talks and tutorials at various academic and industrial forum, coordinated fifteen short-term courses and workshops on various aspects of structural and earthquake engineering and published more than seventy research papers in reputed journals and conferences. He is associated with various research projects of more than fifteen million rupees and handled consultancy project of more than twenty million rupees. He received Sir Arthur Cotton Memorial Prize (IEI) in 2011. He is member of Indian Water Works Association, Institution of Engineers (India), Bamboo Society of India and Indian Society of Earthquake Technology. In the later he also served as executive committee member during 2011-12. He is reviewer of many journals such as American Concrete Institute, Engineering Structures, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Journal of Structural Fire Engineering and many more.

Education

Sr. No.	Degree	Year	Specialization	University
1	Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)	2004 – 2010	Earthquake Engineering	IIT Roorkee (India)
2	Master of Technology (M.Tech.)	2002 –2004	Earthquake Engineering	IIT Roorkee (India)
3	Bachelor	1996 –2000	Civil Engineering	Bangalore University (India)

Contact Details

Name:	Phone:	Email:	Address:
Dr. Ratnesh Kumar	Contact no.: +91-9372548232 (M), +91-07122801582 (O), +91-07122801680 (R)	Email Id: ratneshkumars[at]apm.vnit.ac.in	Professor, Department of Applied Mechanics,Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur, South Ambazari Road,Nagpur-440010, Maharashtra, India

Research Area

Research Interest
Performance-based design, Seismic evaluation and retrofitting, Seismic vulnerability and risk assessment, Modelling of RC and Steel structures

Sr. No.	Title	Funding Agency	Amount (in Lakhs INR)
1	Capacity Building for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation with a Special Focus on Sustainable Habitat and Risk Management	DST	115.89 Lakh
2	Evaluation of Toughcrete Steel Fibre – Concrete Composites	Industry	2.3 Lakh
3	Preparation of heat action plan of Amravati city	Amravati Municipal Corporation	15 Lakh
4	Earthquake Hazard and Risk Reduction on Indian Subcontinent	Norwegianembassy	Completed

Sr. No.	Title	Funding Agency	Role	Year	Amount (in Lakhs INR)

Description	Author(s)	Publisher	ISBN	Year

Sr. No.	Patent Title	Application No.	Date	Present Staus

Sr. No.	Title
1	Introduction to Random Vibration
2	Extreme Events, Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
3	Sustainable Habitat
4	Wind Effects on Structures
5	Socio-Economic Vulnerability & Livelihood
6	Extreme Events, Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
7	Green Building with special emphasis on ECBC
8	Earthquake Behaviour of Buildings
9	Collaboration: for research, training and field implementation
10	Collaboration: for joint research and training
11	Sustainable built environment
12	Seismic Design of Multi-Storey Buildings
13	Seismic Analysis and Design of RC Buildings
14	Practical aspects of structural design
15	Seismic Analysis and Design of RC and Masonry Structures
16	Masons and Bar-benders on Earthquake Resistant Reinforced Concrete Buildings
17	national level Quiz for school children on Earthquake tips
18	Blast, Impact and Fire in Structural Engineering
19	Behaviour and Design of RC and Steel Structures

Sr. No.	Responsibility	Institute	Year
1	Dean ( Students Welfare )	VNIT NAGPUR	2024
2	Associate Dean (Students Activity & Sports)	VNIT NAGPUR	2021-2023
3	Associate Dean (Students Activity & Sports)	VNIT NAGPUR	2018 – 2020
4	Convener of the “Committee for Transportation and Security” Annual Convocation 2019	VNIT NAGPUR	2019
5	Member “Hostel mess service committee”	VNIT NAGPUR	2018-2020
6	Member “Student Aid Fund and medical fund Committee”	VNIT NAGPUR	2018-2020
7	Member “Disciplinary action Committee”	VNIT NAGPUR	2018-2020
8	Member “Consultancy Committee of key stake holder for advice on suo moto disclosure”	VNIT NAGPUR	2019
9	Member for staff promotion committee	VNIT NAGPUR	2017
10	Core Committee Member PG Admission 2014 (CCMT)	VNIT NAGPUR	2014
11	Presenting officer (Enquiry Committee)	VNIT NAGPUR	2013
12	Member of sub-committee, VNIT annual convocation	VNIT NAGPUR	2012-2015

Sr. No.	Awards
1	SirArthur Cotton Memorial Prize (IEI) Dec 16, 2011

S.No.	Paper Citation
1	Nagaraju, A. S. V., & Kumar, R. (2022) “Effect of Corrosion of RC Pier on Seismic Performance of Bridges”. In Symposium in Earthquake Engineering (pp. 489-500). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
2	Deshpande, Y., Kumar, R., & Kumbhar, O. G. (2022) “Effectiveness of DDBD Procedure for RC Frame Buildings” In Symposium in Earthquake Engineering (pp. 587-599). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore
3	Mehta, M., Pandey, A., Kumar, R., & Kotharkar, R. S. (2022). “Seismic Risk Assessment of Nagpur City Using Google Maps”, In Symposium in Earthquake Engineering (pp. 513-527). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
4	Atal, M., Kumar, R., Kumbhar, O. G., & Bakre, S. V. (2022, November). “Seismic Evaluation and Retrofitting of Reinforced Concrete Building Using Multiple Combination of FRP Wraps”, In Symposium in Earthquake Engineering (pp. 633-642). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
5	Shankar S., Kumar R., Khatri A.P., and Gupta L.M. (2022) “Comparison of Section Classification Procedure of Different Codes” Proceedings of the 12th Structural Engineering Convention (SEC 2022), NCDMM, MNIT Jaipur, India \| 19-22 December, 2022 doi:10.38208/acp.v1.533
6	Darwin G., Ratnesh Kumar, Onkar Kumbhar and Vijay N. Khose (2022) “Energy Based Design of RC Staging in Elevated Service Reservoir” Proceedings of the 12th Structural Engineering Convention (SEC 2022), NCDMM, MNIT Jaipur, India \| 19-22 December, 2022 doi:10.38208/acp.v1.570
7	Shivam Saini, Ratnesh Kumar and Rajashree Kotharkar (2022) “Seismic Risk Assessment of Nagpur City using the Geographic Information System” Proceedings of the 12th Structural Engineering Convention (SEC 2022), NCDMM, MNIT Jaipur, India \| 19-22 December, 2022 DOI: 10.38208/acp.v1.576
8	Shankar, S., Kumar, R., Khatri, A. P., & Gupta, L. M. (2022). Comparison of Section Classification Procedure of Different Codes. In ASPS Conference Proceedings (Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 443-447).
9	Saini, S. S., Kumar, R., & Kotharkar, R. (2022). Seismic Risk Assessment of Nagpur City using the Geographic Information System. In ASPS Conference Proceedings (Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 739-748).
10	Darwin G. and Kumar R. (2020), “Comparative Study on the Performance of Elevated RC Staging Water Tank by Force Based and Energy Based Design Methods.” Fourth International Conference on Advances in Civil and Structural Engineering (ICACSE – 2020), Organized by Civil Engineering Department, Government College of Engineering, Karad 28-30 May 2020.
11	Anand C. and Kumar R., (2019), “Performance Assessment of RC Columns Subjected to Non-Uniform Fire Exposure,” National Conference on “Sustainable Infrastructure Development and Management, Department of Civil Engineering, VNIT Nagpur, Paper no. SIDM-86, 22-23 Feb 2019
12	Kumbhar O. G., and Kumar R., (2018), “Comparison of Seismic Demand Estimated by FBD, DDBD and EBD Approach for RC Buildings,” 16th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Paper no 199, Dec 2018
13	Lakhade S. O., Kumar R., and Jaiswal, O. R., (2018), “Comparison of Seismic Performance of Frame Staging in Elevated Water Tank and Building Frame,” 16th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Paper no 213, Dec 2018
14	Sivraj, S., Kumbhar, O. G., and Kumar, R., (2018) “Comparison of various energy based approaches for seismic design of RC frame structures,” in Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Construction Materials and Structures (ACMS- 2018), IIT Roorkee, Roorkee.
15	Krishna, G. V., and Kumar, R., (2018) “Issues in design of tall concrete buildings in India with references to IS 16700:2017 code,” in Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Construction Materials and Structures (ACMS- 2018), IIT Roorkee, Roorkee.
16	Gadilohar, S., and Kumar, R., (2018) “Estimation of fire load in a building and procedure to ascertain safety of structural elements,” in Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Construction Materials and Structures (ACMS- 2018), IIT Roorkee, Roorkee.
17	Marjive S. U., Kumar R., and Gupta L. M., (2018) “Buckling Behavior of Cold-Formed C-Section With Quadrilateral Web Stiffener,” in Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Construction Materials and Structures (ACMS- 2018), IIT Roorkee, Roorkee.
18	Kumbhar O. G., Kriplani S., and Kumar R., (2017) “ Assessment of Seismic Demand Estimated by Various DDBD Approaches”, Indian Conference on Applied Mechanics (INCAM) 2017, MNNIT Allahabad, India 5 7 July 2017, 381-386
19	Hadole C., Kumar R., Kumbhar O., (2017) “Seismic Performance Assessment Of Fire Affected Reinforced Concrete Building Using Non-Linear Static Procedure.”, in Proceedings of International Conference on Emerging Technology in Structural Engineering, Nagpur, March – 2017, IJERMCE, Vol. 2(3), 187-191, Doi : 01.1617/vol4/iss3/pid71230.
20	Deoda V., Kumar R., and Kumbhar O. G., (2017) “Seismic Performance Assessment Of Pre-Stressed Precast RC Structure Using Non-Linear Static Procedure.”, in Proceedings of International Conference on Emerging Technology in Structural Engineering, Nagpur, March – 2017, IJERMCE, Vol. 2(3), 447-451, Doi: 01.1617/vol4/iss3/pid69540.
21	Lakhade S. O., Kumar R., and Jaiswal O. R., (2017) “ Effect of Modified Provisions of IS 1893 (Part 2):2014, on Design Base Shear of Elevated Water Tanks.”, in Proceedings of International Conference on Emerging Technology in Structural Engineering, Nagpur, March – 2017, IJERMCE, Vol. 2(3), 429-433, Doi: 01.1617/vol4/iss3/pid79538.
22	Marjive S., Kumar R., and Gupta L. M., (2017) “Influence of Shape of Intermediate Web Stiffener in C-Lipped Cold-Formed Steel Channels on Buckling Strength.”, in Proceedings of International Conference on Emerging Technology in Structural Engineering, Nagpur, March – 2017, IJERMCE, Vol. 2(3), 375-379, Doi: 01.1617/vol4/iss3/pid30612.
23	Parate, K. and Kumar, R., (2017) “ Simplified Model for Shear Strength Prediction of RC Exterior Beam-Column Joints.”, n Proceedings of International Conference on Emerging Technology in Structural Engineering, Nagpur, March – 2017, IJERMCE, Vol. 2(3), 235-241, Doi: 01.1617/vol4/iss3/pid59180
24	Kriplani S., Kumbhar O. G., and Kumar R., (2017) “Comparison of Various Direct Displacement Based Approaches for Seismic Design.”, in Proceedings of International Conference on Emerging Technology in Structural Engineering, Nagpur, March – 2017, IJERMCE, Vol. 2(3), 402-405, Doi: 01.1617/vol4/iss3/pid36179.
25	Ingole S. J., and Kumar R., (2017) “Development of Scoring System for Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Indian Model Building Types.”, International Conference on Emerging Technology in Structural Engineering, Nagpur, March – 2017, IJERMCE, Vol. 2(3), 383-387, Doi: 01.1617/vol4/iss3/pid36904.
26	Mahajan A., Kumar R. and Kumbhar O. G., (2016) “Comparative study of flat slab-column connection techniques for seismic loading”, Structural Engineering Convention 2016, CSIR-SERC, (2016) 166-171
27	Kumbhar O. G. and Kumar R., (2016) “Effect of modeling assumptions on seismic performance of RC building”, Structural Engineering Convention 2016, CSIR-SERC, (2016) 92-97
28	Swetha J., Kumbhar O. G. and Kumar R., (2016) “Performance estimation of solid and punched shear wall buildings with two modelling techniques”, Structural Engineering Convention 2016, CSIR-SERC, (2016) 86-91
29	Kumbhar O., and Kumar R., (2016) “Impact of Local Stiffening Effect of Staircase on Global Behaviour of Structure.”, in Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Civil Infrastructure and Development of Smart Cities, Islampur, 2016
30	Adhikary, S., Singh, Y., Lang, D.H., and Kumar, R. (2015), “Effect of Soil on Seismic Performance and Vulnerability of RC Frame Building,” SECED 2015 Conference: Earthquake Risk and Engineering towards a Resilient World, 9-10 July, Cambridge, UK.
31	Dubey, N., Sonparote, R. S. & Kumar, R. (2015), “Effect of Construction Sequence Analysis on Seismic Performance of Tall Buildings,” International Conference on Innovative Research in Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, Civil, Computer Science and Information Technology , J.N.U., New Delhi, 16-17 May 2015.
32	Parate K. N., Kumar R., and Bakre S. V., (2014), “A Review on Seismic Behavior of RC Beam-Column Joints,” 15th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, pp. 836―846, Dec 2014
33	Nayak S. S., Kumar R., and Sonporate R. S., (2014), “Effect of Staged Construction Analysis on Seismic Design and Performance of Rc Buildings”, 15th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, pp. 439―449, Dec 2014
34	Smita, C., & Kumar, R. (2015). Comparison of Seismic Vulnerability of Buildings Designed for Higher Force Versus Higher Ductility. In Advances in Structural Engineering (pp. 963-975). Springer, New Delhi
35	Samarth, D. D., Bakre, S. V., Kumar, R., (2014), “Seismic Analysis of Adjacent Buildings Connected with Dampers,” ICCBE 2014 : International Conference on Civil and Building Engineering, Paris, France, June, 26-27
36	Kumar R., Singh Y, and Deoliya R., (2012), “Effect of Design and Detailing Deficiencies on Seismic Performance and Vulnerability of Indian RC Frame Buildings,” Proc. 15 World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. 24-28 Sept. 2012, Lisbon, Portugal Paper No. 4739
37	S. Adhikary, Y. Singh, and R. Kumar (2010), “Effect of Soil Amplification and Foundation Flexibility on Seismic Performance of a Four Storey RC Frame Building,” Proc. 14th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, December 17-19, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, pp. 1424-1433.
38	Yogendra Singh, Ratnesh Kumar and Putul Haldar (2009), “Earthquake Resistant Design & Construction Practices in India”, Second India Disaster Management Congress – IDMC 2009, November 4-6, Vigyan Bhaban, New Delhi, paper no. A1-SOA
39	Dadi, V. V. S. S. K, Kumar, R. and Joshi, G. C., (2009), “Seismic Survey and Condition Assessment of Existing School Buildings in Uttarakhand”, HDME 09, IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand, April 18, 2009, pp. 69―80
40	Kumar R., Singh Y, and Deoliya R., (2009), “Review of retrofitting techniques for masonry infilled RC frame buildings,” Trends and Challenges in Structural engineering and Construction Technologies, Central Building Research Institute Roorkee (Uttarakhand), India February 11-12, 2009, pp. 284―296.
41	Yogendra Singh and Ratnesh Kumar (2008), “Performance of Structures During Past Earthquakes: Lessons for Construction Industry,” International Conference on Construction – Managing Earthquake Risk, January 30―31, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India. pp. 367-377
42	Kumar Ratnesh, Singh Yogendra and Paul, D.K. (2007), “Design of Reinforced Concrete Jacketed Columns”, National Conference on Emerging Trends in Civil Engineering – 07, SSIT, Tumkur, India. pp. 363―369
43	Nikam Amol, Kumar Ratnesh and Singh Yogendra (2006), “Strength and Ductility of Steel Confined and CFRP Confined RC Members”, 13 Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, DEQ-IITR, Roorkee, India. pp. 1353―1363
44	Ratnesh Kumar, Yogendra Singh and Dilip K. Paul, (2004), “Strength and Ductility of Jacketed RC Members,” Indo-Taiwan Joint Workshop on Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Buildings, Silver Oak, habitat World at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, Nov. 22-23, 2004. pp. 100―108
45	Paul D. K., Singh Yogendra and Kumar Ratnesh, (2004) “Seismic Safety of Hospital Building – A Case Study,” Indo-Taiwan Joint Workshop on Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Buildings, Silver Oak, habitat World at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, Nov. 22-23, 2004. pp. 52―64

S.No.	Paper Citation
1	Nagaraju, A. S. V., & Kumar, R. (2024) “ Effect of climate change on structural safety of RC bridges in coastal region”, Structures, Volume 63, p. 106273, ISSN 2352-0124, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2024.106273
2	Nagaraju, A. S. V., & Kumar, R. (2023). “Reliability based service life prediction of bridges in Indian coastal region”, Structural Concrete, Vol. 24, No. 6, 7759-7778. https://doi.org/10.1002/suco.202300257
3	Parate, K., Kumbhar, O., & Kumar, R. (2024) “Simplified beam-column joint model for reinforced concrete moment resisting frames”, Structural Engineering and Mechanics, Vol. 89, No. 1, 77-91, https://doi.org/10.12989/sem.2024.89.1.077
4	Kumbhar, O. G., Kumar, R.. & Noroozinejad Farsangi, E. (2020) “ Investigating the Efficiency of DDBD Approaches for RC Buildings”, Structures – Structures, Volume 27, PP1501-1520, ISSN 2352-0124, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2020.07.015
5	Kumbhar, O. G., & Kumar, R.. (2020). “Performance Assessment of RC Frame Designed using Force, Displacement & Energy Based Approach”. Structural Engineering & Mechanics, 73(6):699-714; DOI: 10.12989/sem.2020.73.6.699
6	Lakhade S. O., Kumar R., and Jaiswal, O. R., (2020) “ Estimation of drift limits for different seismic damage states of RC frame staging in elevated water tanks using Park and Ang damage index”, Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, Vol. 19, No. 1 161-177 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11803-020-0554-1
7	Kumbhar, O. G., Kumar, R., Panaiyappan P. L., & Noroozinejad Farsangi, E. (2019). Direct Displacement Based Design of Reinforced Concrete Elevated Water Tanks Frame Staging. International Journal of Engineering, 32(10), 1395-1406. DOI: 10.5829/ije.2019.32.10a.09
8	Deoda, V. R., Adhikary, S., Kumar, R., & Kumbhar, O. G. (2019). New modelling methodology for seismic design of precast structures and performance evaluation considering soil–foundation system. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 44, 8305-8324.
9	Parate, K., & Kumar, R. (2019). Shear Strength Model for Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column Joints Based on Hybrid Approach. Computers and Concrete, Vol. 23, No. 6 377-398. DOI:https://doi.org/10.12989/cac.2019.23.6.377
10	Parate, K. and Kumar, R., (2019) “ Shear strength criteria for design of RC beam–column joints in building codes”, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 17, No. 3 1407–1493, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-018-0492-8
11	Parate, K. and Kumar, R., (2019) “ Simplified empirical model for shear strength of RC beam–column joints”, Asian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 20, No. 1 87–111, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42107-018-0090-8
12	Lakhade S. O., Kumar R., and Jaiswal, O. R., (2018) “ Damage states of yielding and collapse for elevated water tanks supported on RC frame staging”, Structural Engineering and Mechanics, Vol. 67, No. 6 587-601
13	Lakhade S. O., Kumar R., and Jaiswal, O. R., (2017) “Estimation of response reduction factor of RC frame staging in elevated water tanks using nonlinear static procedure”, Structural Engineering and Mechanics, Vol. 62, No. 2 209-224
14	Parate, K. and Kumar, R., (2016) “Investigation of shear strength models for exterior RC beam-column joint”, Structural Engineering and Mechanics, Vol. 58, (3) 475-514
15	Kumbhar, O. G., Kumar, R., and Adhikary, S., (2015) “Effect of staircase on seismic performance of RC frame building,” Earthquakes and Structures, Vol. 9 (2) 375-390
16	Kumar, R., and Singh, Y., (2010), “Stiffness of RC Frame Members for Seismic Analysis,” ACI Structural Journal, Vol. 107 ( 5) 607-615
17	Joshi, G. C., and Kumar, R., (2010), “Preliminary Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Mussoorie Town, Uttarakhand (India),” Journal of Building Appraisal, Palgrave McMillan, Vol. 5 (4) 357-368
18	Kumar, R., Singh, Y., and Tripathi, S., (2011), “Effect of Building Performance on Floor Response Spectra,” Journal of Structural Engineering (JoSE), Vol. 37 (6) 421-425
19	Singh, Y., Rameshkumar. A., and Kumar, R., (2010), “Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of a Historical Masonry Building,” Journal of the Institution of Engineers (I), Civil Engineering Division, Vol. 91, 23-30
20	Patil, S. P., Singh, Y., Prasad, J. S. R., and Kumar, R., (2010), “Seismic Performance and Vulnerability Assessment of URM School Buildings in Uttarakhand,” The IUP Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 3 (2) 7-21
21	Singh, Y., Chakraborty, S., and Kumar, R., (2009), “Efficacy of Base Isolation for Seismic Safety of URM Infills in RC Frame Buildings,” The Icfai University Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 2 (3), 38-47

Dr. Ratnesh Kumar​

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Department of Applied Mechanics, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, South Ambazari Road, Nagpur-440010

Dr. Ratnesh Kumar